Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: (OT) Windows 10 won't back up to an internal HD? Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 09:06:21 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:06:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3d8d0852667b2f5b8cdb5bcfebdde279"; logging-data="2682986"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4LzAjjyXunuL1xBLUXu9e" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kdQ39q8yJTQKLcAh4UwkM+D3CfY= Bytes: 2760 My wife's Windows 10 computer (Inspiron, not my choice) came with a 256GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive. Stupid me, I assumed that Dell would set up it up so the program data would save on the TB hard drive and the applications would run from the SSD. Nope. Everything ran on the SSD and all data was saved there. The hard drive is just a drone, sitting there and doing nothing. (I just discovered this.) So after about three years, her computer slowed way down. I assumed she needed more memory and bought a 32GB SIM (so she now has 40GBs of RAM). Still slow. Then I realized that she had filled up her SSD. It actually had only 25MBs free tonight. It's a wonder it ran at all. So I ordered a 1TB SSD, and tonight cloned it in an external enclosure and installed it. Worked well (the SSD came with Acronis True Disk). I saw that Acronis had a backup utility as well, so figured I would back up the new SSD to the practically unused hard drive... and I found out Microsoft doesn't like backing up to an internal hard drive. Why does it have this limitation? For those of you who use Windows, is there any way to make Windows 10 back up to an internal hard drive? I've seen something about making the internal drive a "network drive," which seems kind of convoluted. Is there any application that overrides this (to me) senseless limitation? And why does Windows 10 have this limitation — is there a logical reason for it? (Apparently Windows 7 didn't have this limitation.) Kind of ranting. Sorry. But I would like to see my wife's internal hard drive set up for backups — if possible. -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine